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The Rapaport Tradewire Stock Watch list performed very well in 2009 even though the retail and mining sectors both had a difficult economic year. Investors jumped in, giving diamond and jewelry suppliers and some miners share price growth in the triple digits. Rapaport News wishes everyone a happy, healthy, and very prosperous 2010!


Dec. 30 '09Dec. 30 '08
$1 = Euro0.6930.711-0.018
$1 = Rupee46.548.4-2.0
$1 = Israel Shekel3.813.780.04
$1 = Rand7.519.55-2.04
$1 = Canadian Dollar1.041.22-0.18




Precious Metals




Gold$1,089.70$881.60$208.10
Platinum$1,465.00$938.00$527.00




Stock Indexes




BSE17,401.569,903.467,498.1075.71%
Dow Jones Avg.10,572.478,776.391,796.0820.46%
FTSE5,432.014,434.17997.8422.50%
Hang Seng21,499.4414,387.487,111.9649.43%
S & P 5001,129.31903.25226.0625.03%
Yahoo! Jewelry Index1,001.91600.15401.7666.94%




USA




Birks & Mayors$1.06$0.60$0.4676.93%
Blue Nile $64.43$24.49$39.94163.09%
Charles & Colvard $1.13$0.20$0.93465.00%
DGSE Companies, Inc.$1.36$1.70-$0.34-20.00%
Fuqi International$18.17$6.26$11.91190.26%
JCPenney $27.41$19.70$7.7139.14%
Kohl's $55.32$36.20$19.1252.82%
Lazare Kaplan $2.50$4.10-$1.60-39.02%
LJ International$2.45$0.66$1.79271.21%
Macy's$17.79$10.35$7.4471.88%
Man Sang$2.37$1.44$0.9364.58%
Movado Group$9.63$9.39$0.242.56%
Nordstrom $38.00$13.31$24.69185.50%
Saks $6.91$4.38$2.5357.76%
Signet $26.68$8.67$18.01207.73%
Sotheby's$24.06$8.89$15.17170.64%
Tiffany $44.00$23.63$20.3786.20%
Walmart$54.03$56.06-$2.03-3.62%
Zale $2.33$3.33-$1.00-30.03%




EUROPE




Bulgari€5.81€4.48€1.3329.69%
Bijou Brigitte€116.41€83.45€32.9639.50%
Damiani€1.09€0.82€0.2732.93%
LVMH €78.79€47.77€31.0264.94%
PPR€84.15€46.60€37.5580.58%
Richemont SACHF 35.12CHF 20.28CHF 14.8473.18%
Swatch GroupCHF 263.10CHF 145.80CHF 117.3080.45%
Theo Fennell (pence)46.0017.25€28.75166.67%




INDIA (rupee)




Classic Diamond22.9013.998.9163.69%
Gitanjali Gems122.7071.5051.2071.61%
Goldiam Int'l45.9043.752.154.91%
Rajesh Exports89.0525.2563.80252.67%
Ren. Jewellery 55.0523.7531.30131.79%
Su-Raj Diamonds47.1024.6022.5091.46%
Titan1,433.90940.50493.4052.46%
Zodiac JRD23.6513.4010.2576.49%
Suashish Diamonds306.64183.50123.1467.11%




NEW ZEALAND




Michael HillNZD 0.67NZD 0.51NZD 0.1631.37%




MINING STOCKS




(pence unless noted)




CANADA




Harry WinstonCAD 10.01CAD 5.62CAD 4.3978.11%
LucaraCAD 1.01CAD 0.43CAD 0.58134.88%
Mountain ProvinceCAD 2.22CAD 1.06CAD 1.16109.43%
Peregrine DiamondsCAD 2.01CAD 0.69CAD 1.32191.30%
Rockwell DiamondsCAD 0.06CAD 0.07-CAD 0.01-7.69%
Shore GoldCAD 0.97CAD 0.45CAD 0.52115.56%
Stornoway DiamondCAD 0.61CAD 0.09CAD 0.52577.78%
True North GemsCAD 0.09CAD 0.08CAD 0.016.25%




UK (pence)




African Diamonds36.933.53.410.15%
Anglo American2718.501506.00$1,212.5080.51%
BHP Billiton2,010.01,294.0716.055.33%
Firestone Diamonds35.420.015.477.00%
Gem Diamonds229.1255.8-26.7-10.42%
Gemfields5.410.5-5.2-49.05%
Mwana Africa12.83.49.4278.34%
Namakwa Diamonds30.023.56.527.66%
Petra Diamonds61.380.0-18.8-23.44%
Rio Tinto plc3,130.01,490.01,640.0110.07%

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